In 2001, Google introduced image search on its homepage. Two years later, the artist Wolfgang Plöger began his long-term project Image Search Library, for which he transfers all image hits for search terms of his choice into books. The order of the images is retained in the print format, no source details are given, only the search term and the date of the search are documented. Image Search Library captures fleeting moments of subjective Internet research controlled by algorithms and has now grown to over 140 image volumes. With this project, Wolfgang Plöger is one of the first artists to adopt the web-to-print approach and produce small editions of artist's books on demand. 

Image Search Library can be seen as a temporary installation in the library area of fjk3 as part of the event. After an introduction to the project, there will be a discussion between Wolfgang Plöger, Bernhard Cella (artist and initiator of Salon für Kunstbuch) and Martin Reinhart (filmmaker and scientist).

The talk will be held in German. 

Wolfgang Plöger (*1971) lives and works in Berlin. His artistic practice spans a wide range of media such as film, photography, sculpture and various printing techniques in addition to his work with the Internet. All his works have in common, that they focus the inherent laws of the specific medium. His works have been exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bremen, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Museum Moderner Kunst Wien, Kunsthalle Malmö and P.S.1 MoMA, New York, among others. 

Bernhard Cella (born in 1969 in Salzburg, Austria) is an artist, curator, and publisher. An enterprise as a work of art, his long-term project Salon für Kunstbuch is exemplary of his epistemological and publishing practice, which brings together performative settings, exhibitions, and discursive formats and explores the frameworks in which artists’ books are conceived, produced, and distributed. His Salon für Kunstbuch archive currently comprises around 20,000 titles from all artistic disciplines. 

Martin Reinhart (*1967, lives in Vienna) is a filmmaker, media historian, inventor and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In recent years, he has developed a system for autocorrelating large amounts of data together with physicist Leonard Coster. The aim of this work is to create an objective topography of world knowledge. His current research project Radical Matter explores the boundaries of materiality in art, science and philosophy with the aim of gaining new perspectives and insights into the nature of matter and its philosophical, political and scientific implications.